Stanford Blood Center (SBC) may be best known for collecting blood products for patient use at our partner hospitals, including Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, but there is another extraordinarily important life-saving function performed by SBC; it’s...
Stanford Blood Center (SBC) recently welcomed a new member to the team, Alison Hopkins. Alison joins us as our new Volunteer Supervisor and her role will include recruiting volunteers, coordinating volunteer shifts, and planning volunteer appreciation events. We asked Alison...
Many donors, staff and volunteers will remember the friendly face of Jacqueline “Jackie” Light, who was a registrar at our center locations. She passed away peacefully on May 21, 2016. She was born in San Francisco, and married the love...
Stanford Blood Center’s Special Donations department is a small office of four cubicles. A large whiteboard takes up an entire wall of the room, and is covered in meticulous handwriting in a rainbow of colors. A good portion of the...
By Kristin Stankus On May 27, 2014, Stanford Blood Center welcomed Shaguna Wilkes as its new volunteer services manager. While her education and background are in human resources, Shaguna discovered her true passion when she moved to Madison, WI for...
By Julie Peachey Tho Pham, MD, is the newest member of a team of doctors who provide medical direction for Stanford Blood Center. He is a familiar face for us already, having spent part of the past year at SBC...
By Deanna Bolio Dr. Susan Galel, a fixture at Stanford Blood Center since the very early days, retired from Stanford as an Associate Professor Emeritus on May 1, 2014. Dr. Galel had been with Stanford Blood Center since 1983, first...
By Julie Peachey When Daniel Boñaga, a physician in the Philippines, moved to the U.S. in 1995, he took his first job as a phlebotomist with Virginia Blood Services. It would be 18 years before relocating west and accepting his...
By Julie Peachey We are pleased to welcome our new technology leader, Jacqueline Shen, who comes to us from Tyco International after 17 years as the IT director for their global organization. She joined Stanford Blood Center in December and...
By Deanna Bolio Part of Stanford Blood Center’s mission is to connect donors with patients, which is why we frequently share updates about blood usage at our hospitals and stories from blood recipients we meet. At this year’s Stanford Blood...